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Metamorphosis

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4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Michael McFadden and Adrianne Frost share stories about evolving feelings about their bodies over time.  🎙️Radio Story: Growth by Michael McFadden Michael is a child swimming prodigy trapped in a grown man’s body who fails a humiliating puberty test, loses his athletic destiny, and ultimately redefines masculinity and self-worth beyond the pool and beyond his penis size. 🎤Live Story: Smoochin' and Fiddlin' by Adrianne Frost (Content note: child sexual abuse, self-harm) After surviving childhood sexual abuse and years of debilitating endometriosis, Adrianne equates beauty with value and spirals through painful sex and self-harm before discovering lasting love on new terms. 🌈 Support RISK! & Get Involved 🎟 See RISK! live⁠ in NYC on March 17th ✍️ Pitch your story⁠ ❤️ Support us on Patreon⁠ or ⁠make a one-time PayPal donation⁠ 📚 Shop merch or the RISK! book⁠ 🎓 Take storytelling classes with us⁠🎥 Hire Kevin as a coach or get personalized videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

On this episode of Risk, you'll hear...

0:04.4

The angriest nurses would give me enemas.

0:07.4

And you'll hear...

0:09.0

Showing off my little dick for the first time.

0:11.6

And me, Kevin Allison, on the show where people tell true stories they never thought they dare to share.

0:42.5

All right, folks. This is Dan Z-Tune behind me now,

0:47.0

and we are calling this episode Metamorphosis. Let's start with an especially revealing story by our great friend Michael McFadden.

0:54.4

It's a story we call growth.

1:15.0

I come up for air, but I don't see anyone around me.

1:18.2

There's no other swimmers in the other lanes.

1:21.7

And seven-year-old me starts to panic.

1:23.8

Did I false start?

1:25.1

Did I do something wrong?

1:28.4

So I look over to the deck and I see my coach windmilling his arm frantically towards the end of the pool. And I, okay, I look back behind me and I

1:34.3

see the rest of the kids just struggling, flailing in the water. Oh, oh, oh, I'm ahead. Okay. So I just

1:41.6

start swimming again and I finish the end of the pool. By the end of that

1:46.0

meet, multiple coaches told my parents that I was on track to be one of the fastest swimmers of all

1:52.1

time. You know, I know now that they weren't kidding since the people that I trained with and

1:57.3

raced against for the rest of my youth are now the fastest swimmers of all time.

2:03.4

This was what I started calling my Ferdinand the Bull moment.

2:08.2

If you're not familiar, this was a kid's story from about 100 years ago that I didn't even

2:12.6

know until I was an adult.

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